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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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